Democrats Will Bring the Troops Home

Thank you Hilary Rosen. In one small statement you have leveled the playing field in the Democrats’ contrived war for womanhood, started with President Obama’s birth control policies and amplified by Sandra Fluke’s comments. No question the Dems’ had benefited from the fallout associated with the media’s presentation of these incidents regardless of one’s take or beliefs on the issues themselves.

On CNN Ms. Rosen made the following statement in reference to Ann Romney, stay at home mom of 5 boys and Mitt Romney’s wife of 43 years:

she “has actually never worked a day in her life.”

Thank you Hilary Rosen for expressing your elitist view of women who “choose” motherhood and traditionalism as how they wish to live their lives. Your statement offends and invalidates women on the left, right, married, single, young, old, minority, southern, northern, eastern, western and in-between. It also includes the founder of this site. You can take solace, though, that you are not the first to express this lean toward a conservative woman. Teresa Heinz-Kerry, speaking of First Lady Laura Bush, said

“Let’s put the faux ‘war against stay at home moms’ to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his poor record on the plight of women’s financial struggles.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let’s declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.”

So this means that she apologizes only “if you are offended”. And she wants to go back to the ‘real war’, not this “phony war” that she herself initiated.

Saying someone hasn’t worked a day in their life is not the same as saying that a woman is a prostitute and wants to be paid to have sex, and that we should all have a videotape of it.

This is why your party is losing women by 20% right now. Totally and completely tone deaf.

I took the Rosen comment to be about the privilege that Ann Romney has had in life. People like my mom never had the choice to be a stay at home mom. Hilary Rosen is an idiot? Of course, she’s a talking head!

This is a manufactured story. The issue isn’t Ann Romney never having a job, it’s the feigned “I’m just like you!” attitude the Romneys are, again, manufacturing, to somehow trick middle class people into believing that they aren’t so different, after all.

This is as real as the stories that Republicans have a war on women. What Rosen said is not being manufactured. It’s all the cable news outlets, the print media, this medium, and all the social medias that are fueling this story–not the Romneys. And give it a few days, the polls will change.

Hey you, Lorax. Know anyone with MS? I know many. Many. Some no longer living. Disease is the great equalizer. Ann Romney knows struggles. Of illness and raising kids. Money does not insulate one from reality. Actually, extreme wealth often turns out bad kids. Kudos to both Romneys and their family.

Lorax
Why should I refute your point when my point has nothing to do yours? Hillary Rosen said a stay-at-home-mom, you can fill in any name you want, “actually never worked a day in her life”. Women hearing or reading this, for the most part, are not applying caveats such as financial status or place in society–because it doesn’t change the requirements for the job. Rosen invalidated women who work outside the home as well because , gee, when they get home from their outside jobs, there’s no more work to do.

I’m not saying she does or doesn’t, but why would any thinking person give a damn if Ann Romney “knows the struggles of ordinary people”? What matters is a) if Obama or Romney would be a better president and b) what the worldviews of them/their parties are.

Obama was going out of his way to make a category b) type argument and pick a fight about Romney’s party’s view of women. And it blew up in his face.